Faith Leaders Make The Time 100 By Angela Guzman l Time Magazine 100 l Top 100 List from Time Magazine l Religious Figures on Top 100 List l Time Magazine

Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe

Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe has made it her mission to give back hope and life to the young girls in Gulu, Uganda. Whether these young girls are orphans or victims of violence, rape or sexual exploitation - Sister Rosemary has set out to give a helping hand.

At the Saint Monica Girls’ Tailoring Center she runs, Sister Rosemary acts as administrator, teacher, coordinator , fundraiser, friend, mother - just to name a few of her roles. Her goal is to re-establish these women and help them make a life for themselves, no matter how horrific the obstacles they've faced.

As Forest Whitaker says, in his Time tribute to Sister Rosemary, "The traumas she heals are unfathomable, but the reach of her love is boundless.." She is the voice for women who can not speak.

Three Pioneers

Inam Omar Kobine Layama, Archbishop Dieudonne Nzapalainga and The Rev. Nicolas Guerekoyame-Gbangou are working to end the violence occuring in the Central African Republic.

The Central African Republic descended into chaos in March 2013 with the overthrow of the government of President François Bozizé by a militia coalition knows as the Seleka. Spurned by religious hate speech by Bozizé, retaliation by the Seleka quickly took religious undertones. “We have to leave this cycle of hate, or the state will fail,” Archbishop Nzapalainga said.

While the violence continues the group of men believe that it is possible to end the turmoil. Recognizing the challenges ahead, Archbishop Nzapalainga said, “Reconstructing the social fabric will take time. Disarming people is one thing, disarming hearts is a much harder task at hand.” The Archbishop and the Imam are taking steps and implenting courses of action to find peace. They believe that the international support, that they have received, will help shed light on the possibility of peace to those who are in the middle of the violence.

Barbara Brown Taylor

Barbara Brown Taylor is an American Episcopal priest, professor, and theologian and is one of the United States' best known preachers. Taylor is a New York Times bestselling author. Her latest book Learning to Walk in the Dark provides a way to find spirituality in those times when we don’t have all the answers.

In Learning to Walk in the Dark, Taylor asks us to put aside our fears and anxieties and to explore all that God has to teach us “in the dark.” She argues that we need to move away from our “solar spirituality” and ease our way into appreciating “lunar spirituality." Through darkness we find courage, we understand the world in new ways, and we feel God’s presence around us,